Fueling Agility with Lowcode

• Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
• Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
• Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

• Oil & Gas

• Business Operation
• Process Manufacturing

• Digital Thread
• Predictive Maintenance
• Remote Collaboration
• Supply Chain Visibility

• System Integration
• Software Design & Engineering Services
• Training

Pertamina had around 150 internal workflow process applications built on IBM Lotus Notes. They needed to migrate these workflows to modern applications urgently due to these reasons: Most of the internal workflows were developed using Lotus Notes which faced an uncertain future as the Lotus Notes license was due to expire in 6 months. Existing Lotus Notes forms were extremely complex with numerous controls and role-based access. Pertamina IT did not have sufficient manpower and tools to redevelop these applications rapidly. They wanted to transform the development team into an agile team by adopting the principles of Scrum along with a suitable platform.

Pertamina is one of the largest oil and natural gas corporations based in Jakarta, Indonesia. With around 13,000 employees, Pertamina needed a robust internal digital process system to maintain workflows. Solecode services, based in Indonesia, is a trusted WaveMaker partner who collaborated with the Pertamina IT team to migrate their Lotus Notes applications.

Pertamina, after extensive research, found that low-code was the answer for a rapid turnaround. Being Microsoft enthusiasts, Pertamina evaluated various low-code platforms like Powerapps, Outsystems, and WaveMaker and finally zeroed in on WaveMaker. They chose WaveMaker for four reasons: WaveMaker-built applications can be deployed anywhere, Source code can be extended, No vendor lock-in, Licensing model based on developer-seats. Solecode, a WaveMaker partner based in Jakarta, stepped in to take up this mammoth challenge by collaborating with Pertamina in transforming these applications. Pertamina understood the importance of agile methodologies and wanted their team to adopt Scrum. Solecode believed that low-code and Scrum would perfectly complement each other. This culture was ingrained into Pertamina’s IT development team in effective collaboration with Solecode. Using Excel sheets extracted from legacy databases, the IT team redesigned the new database on SQL Server. Lotus Notes UI screens were used as a reference to build the new interfaces with custom logic to rewrite the workflow as well as form validations. Third-party services such as compression of files, cropping of images, and Google-captcha were easily integrated into the application owing to WaveMaker’s API-first approach. Applications were made secure using Single Sign On (SSO) using OpenID and Keycloak. All applications were deployed on-premise using Ubuntu and Tomcat as the server.

• 150+ Lotus Notes applications were migrated and consolidated as 20 effective multi-tenant, multiregional applications in a record time of 6 months.
• Digital Absence application (mobile) is being used by 7000+ users.
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was created in 5 days using WaveMaker.

• 150+ Lotus Notes applications transformed into 20 modern web-based applications.
• Digital Absence application caters to more than 7000 employees across Indonesia.
• MVP was created in merely 5 days.